Entering the Promised Land

After 40 years of wandering, the people of Israel are finally entering the Promised Land! The Judaean hills, covered in ancient goat-trails, provided the cue for the horizontal stripes which I’ve used to represent this in graphic form. The composition is very circular, with the rounded forms reflecting the circuitous route through the desert. I particularly enjoyed showing the old broken walls of previous civilizations, suggesting that today’s civilization always sits on the shoulders of history.

Darius Gilmont has lived in Israel since 1993. He began working as a professional illustrator while still in high school, when he illustrated a book about Modern Jewish History, but he didn't regard art as a viable career and went on to study architecture at university. Later, after moving from London to Israel, he spent a summer in the Sinai desert, a powerful experience which led to making art on Biblical themes, which continues to be his main artistic preoccupation.

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Oh yes, I must agree! There is definitely a weaving theme throughout it as well. Beautiful.
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Dobra JerusalemJune 23, 2019

A poet once defined great poetry as feeling that the top of your head is blown away. I guess the same experience you can have with painting. On first looking at this painting of coming into the Promised Land, there's a kind of gasp - what is it, you ask, it's so strange. Yet the light is beautiful; those hills are so like the Holy Land, soft rounded earth and the depiction so carefully done of the stones, and the Israelites wending their way into the Land. Darius Gilmont is an inspired artist. Thank you, Mr Gilmont, and chabad.org for showing his work.
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Darius Gilmont has lived in Israel since 1993. He began working as a professional illustrator while still in high school, when he illustrated a book about Modern Jewish History, but he didn't regard art as a viable career and went on to study architecture at university. Later, after moving from London to Israel, he spent a summer in the Sinai desert, a powerful experience which led to making art on Biblical themes, which continues to be his main artistic preoccupation.